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Author | : Chuck Parsons |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574412574 |
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History, Rangers, Quarrels, Trials.
Author | : James M. Smallwood |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 160344386X |
Download The Feud That Wasn't Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called Taylor-Sutton feud has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas.Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing - one among many - marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn't reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.
Author | : Jack Hays Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Crime and criminals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jack Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Outlaws |
ISBN | : 9780878166183 |
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John Wesley Hardin, the most famous and violent gunfighter ever to ride across the sweeping Texas landscape, comes to life again in this gripping true story that spans over forty years in the tumultuous history of nineteenth century Texas. Hero and villain, Hardin rode across post-Civil War Texas, reputedly having killed twenty-three men, including Carpetbaggers, Federal soldiers, and Indians. His legend continues to grow in our own times - from the famous song by Bob Dylan, to the fierce legal battles between two Texas towns over Hardin's body!
Author | : Chuck Parsons |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574417266 |
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In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff, then county sheriff, and finally captain of the notorious Texas State Police, he developed a reputation as a violent and ruthless man-hunter. He arrested many suspected lawbreakers, but often his prisoner was killed before reaching a jail for “attempting to escape.” This horrific tendency ultimately brought about his downfall. Helm’s aggressive enforcement of his version of “law and order” resulted in a deadly confrontation with two of his enemies in the midst of the Sutton-Taylor Feud. “Captain Jack Helm is more than a fine gunfighter biography: it is a vivid statement about the murderous violence of Reconstruction in Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, State Historian of Texas
Author | : Chuck Parsons |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574415050 |
Download A Lawless Breed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie.
Author | : Robert C. Sutton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9780890150665 |
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Author | : Chuck Parsons |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1603444963 |
Download John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.
Author | : Robert C. Sutton, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2008-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781439219942 |
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Times in Texas after the Civil War were tempestuous and lawless. The Six-Shooter was often judge and jury as men battered by war tried to rebuild lives and fortunes from the ashes. The âSutton-Taylor Feudâ erupted from this tinderbox in DeWitt County, Texas.Written by a descendant of a feudist, this book is not a traditional family account. The author uses histories of the feud, contemporaneous news articles, court records, private papers, and material in the archives of the Texas State Library to cut through the haze of hearsay, legend and fiction often obscuring the events of the DeWitt County wars a century ago.This story of Texas during Reconstruction will interest readers encountering it for the first time. Students and historians interested in the old Regular troubles will find new material here as well. The primary aim of the author is to tell the story as it was. The result is a straight-forward story of action and conflict told by a man who has seen much action himself.
Author | : C. L. Sonnichsen |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826322999 |
Download Ten Texas Feuds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based on painstaking research and interviews, Sonnichsen's tales bring to life the bloody feuds of the young state of Texas, where personal vengeance righted intolerable wrongs and settled unbearable grievances.